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Picture	Name/Info	Contact
	Samuel Aftel MA Candidate 20th- and 21st-century American Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Postmodernism, Film Studies, Marxism and Neoliberalism, Affect Theory, Critical Theory	Samuel.Aftel@uky.edu
	Yusuf Akman MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor Creative Writing	yak222@uky.edu POT 1206 MON 12-2pm 8593686664
	Mel Adún PhD Student, Graduate Instructor African Brazilian Literature, Black Brazilian Literature, Black Literature from the African diaspora, Black Feminism, Creative Writing, Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, Afro Latino Studies	mel.adun@uky.edu 1222 Patterson Office Tower
	B Bailey PhD Candidate queer studies, gender, Literature and Film Studies, Critical Race Theory, contemporary literature	lba286@uky.edu 1222
	Kevin Bond MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor Fiction	kevin.bond@uky.edu
	Shannon Branfield PhD Candidate	shannon.branfield@uky.edu 1306 Patterson Office Tower
	Adachioma Ezeano MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor Fiction	chiomaezeano@gmail.com
	Daniel Collins MFA Candidate Creative Nonfiction	daniel.collins@uky.edu
	Caitlin Coulter PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Detective Fiction, 20 and 21st Century American Literature, Multicultural American literature, Multicultural Detective Fiction	caitlinbcoulter@uky.edu 1206 Patterson Office Tower
	Deborah Daley PhD Candidate 19th and 20th century British literature, Gender studies, Cultural Geography and Spatial Theory, War Fiction, 20th Century American Literature	deborah.daley@uky.edu
	Sajida DiAugustine MFA Candidate Fiction	Sajida.Syed@uky.edu 919-215-6790
	Alexis Draut PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor ecofeminism, Gender studies, 20 and 21st Century American Literature, Environmental Literature	andr228@uky.edu
	Roslyn Fleming PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Bildungsroman novels, production of space, Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture	roslyn@uky.edu POT 1222
	Dorothy Freeman MFA Candidate Creative Nonfiction	dorothyfreeman@uky.edu
	Sarah Garrod MA Candidate 20th & 21st Century African and Southeast Asian Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Women’s Writing, Global Cold War Studies, Environmental Humanities, The Novel, The Bildungsroman, Literature and Philosophy, Existentialism	sarah.garrod@uky.edu
	Alex Gergely PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 19th and 20th century American literature, Modernism, Religion and Literature, Post-critique	alex.gergely@uky.edu 7405863748
	David Gifford Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Instructor Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 19th Century British Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, Film Studies	david.gifford119@uky.edu 1206 Patterson Office Tower
	Daria Goncharova PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Race Theory, critical studies of whiteness, Film, Cold War, citizenship	daria.goncharova@uky.edu 1202 Patterson Office Tower
	Zach Griffith PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture, Film, Television, Nostalgia	zcgrif2@uky.edu 1306 POT
	Richard W. Halkyard PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor	rw.halkyard@uky.edu Rm. No. 1218 Patterson Office Tower
	Mills Handy PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Victorian Novel, 19th Century British Literature, critical pedagogy, Science and Literature, Science Fiction	e.handy@uky.edu 1418 Patterson Office Tower
	Drew Heverin Academic Coordinator Senior, Adjunct Assistant Professor, PhD Candidate Public Sphere Theory, Apprenticeship, Early Stuart Literature, Renaissance Dramas	drewheverin2@gmail.com 1318 Patterson Office Tower
	Mark Hines MA Candidate, Graduate Instructor 20th & 21st Century American Culture and Literature, Literary Theory, gender and race, The Fantastic in Literature and Film	mark.hines@uky.edu 5022872717
	Eleanor T. Hough PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 20 and 21st Century American Literature, 20th Century Women's Narrative	eho274@uky.edu
	Payton Howard MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor Fiction	jpho228@uky.edu
	Shanita (NitaJade) Jackson MFA Candidate poetry	saja230@uky.edu 1206 Patterson Office Tower (859)-567-9427
	Lucy Jayes MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor Creative Nonfiction	lucyjayes@uky.edu 1218 Patterson Office Tower
	Anika Jensen PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor British modernism, War and Gender, War and Memory, Gender Studies & Queer Theory, American Modernism	anje231@uky.edu
	Carter Davis Johnson PhD Candidate , Graduate Instructor John Steinbeck, American Modernism, Ecocriticism, Psychoanalysis	carter.johnson@uky.edu
	Margaret Frymire Kelly PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Post-45 American Literature, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, African American Literature	margaretkelly@uky.edu POT 1206
	Henry Knollenberg MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor Fiction	henry.knollenberg@uky.edu
	Kathryn Kohls PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 19th Century British Literature, digital media, feminist theory and methodologies	Kathryn.Kohls@uky.edu 1218 Patterson Office Tower
	Jinmee Lee PhD student, Graduate Instructor Gender and Women's Studies, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Science Fiction, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature, Asian American Literature	jle291@uky.edu
	Kathryn McClain PhD Candidate	1306 Patterson Office Tower
	Sue Mize MA Candidate Gender and Women's Studies, Film, Bibliotherapy, 20th & 21st Century American Culture and Literature	suem54@aol.com 859-576-5801
	Jennifer Murray PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Multi-ethnic U.S. Literature, Migration and Immigration, Trauma Literature and Trauma Studies, Gender studies, Literature of the Holocaust, Disability Studies, Rural Poverty	jenn.murray@uky.edu 1306 Patterson Office Tower
	Emily Naser-Hall Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Instructor Postmodernism, Postmodern American Gothic, feminist theory, Horror Film and Fiction, Popular Culture, Gender and Popular Culture, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Experimental Fiction	ena225@uky.edu 1202 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-6976
	Joe Neary PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Post-1945 American Literature and Culture, Autofiction and Autotheory, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis, Film Studies	joseph.neary@uky.edu
	Kevin J.B. O'Connor PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory, transnationalism, Contemporary Poetry, Latinx Literature	kevinjboconnor@uky.edu
	Betsy Packard MFA Candidate, Graduate Instructor poetry	epackard@uky.edu